Quote Originally Posted by Isius View Post
You can blame the current meta where several people new to tanking in this game worry about being a dps more...then actually tanking. This whole idea of tanks needing to max out thier dps came from Savage raiding. Where dps is necessary from all classes dps/healer/tank to clear that content. Newer tanks look at that, and try to mimic it, but also forgot about the basic fundamentals of tanking...holding aggro, staying alive, and positioning.
TBH I much preferred the time when aggressive tanking was not required and was kind of a niche. Aggressive tanking existed since the SCoB days as far as I can tell from my own raiding experience as a tank, using i70 crafted accessories then the Ruby i90 set when it came out (and the i110 one in FCoB when they came out). High tank DPS was not required at all to meet the DPS checks and most tanks were using full VIT gear and sitting in tanking stance, with only some people going with STR/hybrid builds and stance dancing, generally people who wanted to play at the absolutely best optimal way possible. I loved when back in 2.5x while waiting for the expac, I joined T10-11 farm parties in PF and people running parsers were amazed at me sustaining over 420-450 DPS while tanking T11 out of Defiance and no healer complaints, while most tanks were struggling to do more than 240 DPS. That's how niche it was. Now, a tank doing high DPS in raid content is, on top of being a common thing, actually required. And then baddies trying to mimic the good raiding tanks are being destroyed by trash mobs. Sad.